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¡¡¡¡Writers of standards¡ªboth for general structural design and, in particular, structural steel design¡ªrolled out their 2010 versions this month, completed in time to be referenced in the upcoming 2012 edition of the model ¡°International Building Code.¡± An overriding goal, say the engineers responsible for the revisions, is to make the standards simpler to understand and use. |